Hugh Jackman: 'Bryan Singer invented the superhero genre'

Hugh Jackman has discussed reuniting with Bryan Singer for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Jackman, alongside fellow X-Men veterans Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Halle Berry, reprises his role as Wolverine in Singer's upcoming film, which functions as a sequel to both 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand and 2011's X-Men: First Class.

"I keep saying it's like two movies in one but the size of it, it's like three in one," Jackman told Access Hollywood, before going on to discuss Singer's role in pioneering the modern superhero genre.

"Few people credit Bryan for what he deserves credit for, which is really inventing that genre. There wasn't really a superhero genre before X-Men came out," he mused.

"The idea that you could really dive in to the emotional life, to the vulnerability of these characters and that, as well as being fantastical, amazing and action, is what's going to hook people and make them care. That's what Bryan did, he had a lot of courage to do that."

In addition to the cast from the original X-Men trilogy, X-Men: Days of Future Past will star First Class cast members James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult.